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Lincoln Steffens
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“The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.”
Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities (New York: Hill and Wang, 1957 [1904]), p. 2.
“I have seen the Future, and it works.”
Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lincoln Steffens, letter to Marie Howe, 3 Apr. 1919. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations comments: "Steffens had composed the expression before he had even arrived in Russia.
“It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.”
Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Autobiography (1931) as cited in The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume Five: Poetry and Criticism 1900–1950, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (2003), p. 446
“Soviet Russia was a revolutionary government with an evolutionary plan. Their plan was, not by direct action to resist such evils as poverty and riches, graft, privilege, tyranny, and war, but to seek out and remove the causes of them. They were not practicing what we and they preached. They were not trying to establish political democracy, legal liberty and negotiated peace — not now. They were at present only laying a basis for these good things. They had set up a dictatorship, supported by a small, trained minority, to make and maintain for a few generations a scientific rearrangement of economic forces which would result in economic democracy first and political democracy last.”
Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source